.htaccess

RewriteEngine on
DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteRule ^$ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^home$ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^about$ /about.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteRule ^made/([^/]*)$ /project.php?p=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]*\.html?|[^\./]*)[:;,\.]*$ /page.php?p=$1 [L]

fastcgi_params

fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param  HTTPS              $https if_not_empty;

fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;

fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;

nginx.conf

# user  nginx;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;

    server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

redirect

# nginx configuration
index index.php;

location / {
    rewrite ^/$ /index.php break;

    if ($request_method ~ "GET"){
        rewrite ^/made/([^/]*)$ /project.php?p=$1 break;
    }

    if ($request_method ~ "GET"){
        rewrite "^/?([^/]*\.html?|[^\./]*)[:;,\.]*$" /page.php?p=$1 break;
    }
}

location = /home {
    rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php break;
}

location = /about {
    rewrite ^(.*)$ /about.php break;
}

website.conf

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name justinedmund.com www.justinedmund.com;
    root /home/justin/www/jedmund.com/prod/public;

    access_log /home/justin/www/jedmund.com/prod/logs/access.log;
    error_log /home/justin/www/jedmund.com/prod/logs/error.log;

    include fastcgi_params;

    location / {
        try_files $uri.php $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
    }

    # remember that PHP-FPM status URL we setup? we want to support it for this
    # vhost. so if the request is for /status, hand that back to
    # PHP using our named upstream server
    location /status {
        fastcgi_pass php;
    }

    # this is identical, but for the ping URL we setup
    location /ping {
        fastcgi_pass php;
    }

    # and finally, the magic that makes PHP work. if the file being requested ends in ".php"
    # it's something that PHP-FPM should process, so hand it to our named upstream server
    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass php;
    }
}